Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-06-02

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At Engelsville, Bucks county, Pn., on
Tuesday evening week, Kate Carmen, q
farmers daughter, aged 1S, was helping
10 dig we'll. While shoveling l5 feet
below the surface the earth caved in and
she was killed. Joseph Berger, aged IL,
sustained fatal injuries.
A 4-year-old son Of Samuel Robbins
died in Norristown, Pa, Tuesday night
week from the effects Of carbolic acid
swallowed Monday afternoon week. The
little fellow swallowed the poison un-
noticed by his mother, who was using il
in packing away woolen clothes for the
summer.
A violent storm of wind and rain Wis.,
tied San Angelo, Tex. Tuesday night week,
causing damage estimated at $50, 900. The
cupoln of the courthouse was blown
down, aud the east wing was damaged.
All the churches in the town were dam
aged, and about IL dwellings, were un-
rooted and partly demolished.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
has informed tho collector Of customs Mt
New York that fresh fish, when imported
for immediate consumption, are exempt
from duty, no matter by whom caught or
by whom imported, but that If they are
not imported for immediate consumption
they are subject to duty.
John Vanderburg, accused OF having
chloroformed and assaulted Jennie Ander-
son, at Brookville, Missouri, was shot
dead at preliminary examination in the
court room, on Tuesday week, just as the
iudge announced that he would be held
/. u,f Inu HlNroa uhOtn firad
Who fred them is not known, but two
brothers Of the girl, who were present,
were placed under arrest.
Before the steamer Thanemore, which
arrived at Quebec Thursday, left the
Mersey, q number of stowaways were dis
covered on board and landed. Seventeen
more were found when the vessel was of
the coast of Ireland and were put ashore,
and when the ship was we'll out to sea III
additional free passengers turned up,
making in all 43 young men and boys who
had secreted themselves on board the
vessel at Liverpool.
The treasury department, having been in
formed that pleuropneumonia is prevalent
among neat cattle in Scotland, Turshday
issued a circular to customs officers pro-
hibitinp, until further notice, the impor.
tation of neat cattle and the hides OF neat
cattle from that country. The Oommls,
sjoner Of Agriculture has declared rigid
quarantine against cattle from Cook
eouuty. Illinois. the counties Of ltalti-
more, Howard, Carroll and Prince George,
| in Maryland and Westchester, New YORK
Richmond, Kings, Queens and Sn1oik
| counties, in New York. These orders
have been certified to the governors oil
all the stat, s and territories, and to day
warnings will be given to thesraiitoads
npninst breach Of quarantine.
The fourth biennial convention OF Inc
National Women's Home and Foreign
| Mission Society of tho Lutheran Ohllfch
closed Thursday at Wooster, Ohio. One
/ hundred and fifty delegates were present
and Mrs. ID. Alstead of Harrisburg, Ia
nresided. II was reported that since tht
last convention $28,000 had been col
lecled. $40, 900 more than in any preyioui
two years. During its eight years o.
existence the society has colirctes
40 600. Officers were elected as ioi
iows: President, Mrs. j. ID. Detwllier
Kansas Oity; Vice, Presidents, Mrs y
Swartz. Gettysburg, Pa; Mrs. III, ID
Fenner, Louisville; Recording Secretary
Mrs. s. b. Belmore, Cincinnati; Core
spending Secretary, Miss Mary hlofrls
Baltimore; Treasurer, Mrs. A. " hHn
mer, Baltimore. A..
The 27th annual convention OF tn
United States Brewers Association opene'
Yesterday we ak in Baltimore. W. A. MILO
Of New York, President OF the associa
tion. delivered the opening address
Richard Katzenmeyer, the secretary
read the report of the board OF trustees
r. ghowed, among other things, tht
about $50 brewers throughout the oountr
have pledged themselves to protect eac
other during strikes by refrainlng iroI
ah,pninp their beer to markets affected
boycott. The signers of the pledge rel
resent 90 per cent Of the malt liquors ai
nually produced in the United State
The report of the publication and vlg
, lance committee argued that beer drini
, inc is conducive to longevity, that be'
aI,9uld be classed as one OF the necess
, r;as of life and that the temperance i
: natios were blasphemous when they q
. tamnt TO prove that God commanded a
Htinence. ,,1.,
4 the New lOrH hbbothbtJ "eAo
4 chamber, on the adjournment OF IN
body, Thurs1 day, the speaker remo,int' y
the rostrum and announced that hdlI ~,
William O'Brien was in the room. ~
sneaker invited Mr.. 0'Brien to mount y
8 nIatform beside him. The chamber "
nearly filed with spectators and mei
n hers, but passage-way was opened !
" the famous editor, who accepted the !
9 vitation amid great applause. He made
8 iil-minutes speech in which he reierr,
II ~ n tbe unusual hospitality with which
v had been received in America, and
D nressed , his sense of the honor accord
> him. He predicted that the lrisn eau ~,
!, would advance. The liberal party OF En
q land had never undertaken great mo,
d msnt which il had not ultimately CARR
m 10 sncoess. He could assure his heare
that American sympathy greatly nerv
and encouraged every advocate ana y
L. noter of the Irish cause, even Farn
Of and Gladstone themselves. Mr.. hust
9 followed in some ppropriate remarks
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